Gillette, Bleeding Market Share, Cuts Prices of Razors

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 4, 2017 | Sharon Terlep

[C19fan]

Gillette, which dominates the global razor business, has long followed a simple and lucrative strategy: Add new features and raise prices.

But the 115-year-old brand is changing tactics this month by slashing prices and putting a new focus on its cheaper products. The Procter & Gamble Co. unit hopes to stop

[Smittie]

Gillette actually mailed me a free Fusion out of the blue years ago. I use it on the weekends & use an electric razor during the week.

[Sans-Culotte]

I use GILLETTE FUSION POWER with the Edge shaving gel in the orange can. The cartridges are ridiculously expensive, but I get a very close shave and never get cut. A cartridge lasts me at least a month with shaving every day. I use a blow dryer when done to keep the blades dry. I don't like the prices, but it is an excellent product IMO.

[bunkerhill7]

My girlfriend wants me to save money on razors.
She wants to pluck out my beard for free.

[Dick Bachert]

Cost saving tip:I customarily get about a YEAR out of my quad blade super whizbang razors. How? The same way the old pro barbers did. I HONE the thing on a rough cloth strap, knocking down the burrs and knicks and restoring a clean, sharp edge on all 4 blades!

[Calvin Locke]

The thing about hair conditioner is that it's notorious for clogging pores. If that's not an issue, then nevermind.

I use a shaving brush with bar soap remnants in a Crabtree & Evelyn wooden bowl I got decades ago.

[Covenantor]

About the same here, Dovo Bismark Super plain black handle, nice Solingen steel, no engraving.

Just beyond the DC Beltway I could bring out the fancy engraved one at BBQ’s but it wouldn’t be appreciated. Can’t imagine why.

;>)

[Squantos]

Oxen Hill ?:o)

[Gamecock]

That's what I use, 100 blades for $19.00!

That, with Proraso Green Label product and for the first time in my life I am enjoying my morning shave!

[bgill]

I remember when one blade was adequate. And didn’t cost anything.

[yarddog]

I remember Daddy using one like that in the early 50s. He had a cup with a round bar of shaving soap and a round brush to mix up a batch and apply to the face.

Around 1965 he switched to the injector razor and stainless steel blades which was all the rage at the time.

[servantboy777]

>>You mean like their shi**y disposables that do nothing but hack up my face??<<

That's freaking funny. I feel ya. Used a disposable one time and it looked like I took a shotgun blast to the throat and face.

[GreyFriar]

I too use my old Trac II razor from back in the 80s maybe. a ‘blade’ lasts me a month.

[luvbach1]

I found a single-bladed, plastic disposable with a sharp blade that’s good for at least 10 smooth shaves.

[IYAS9YAS]

People were shoplifting them. It was crazy.

They're behind locked glass doors at both my local Walmarts. Just like the ammo and video games...

[wally_bert]

Two days us about all I can stand of face fuzz.

I have a Braun electric that does well.

[FXRP]

Yup. Williams soap and a brush.

[Covenantor]

West of there...

[redangus]

Harry’s, good price, good blade. Not crazy about their shave creams, but I’m a brush and mug guy.

[Lurker]

Harry’s makes fantastic razors. 2 bucks a piece and they last two weeks.

L

[Tijeras_Slim]

Man, haven’t thought of Oxon Hill for decades. My last gig in the east was running security at a detention facility for crazy Marielitos at St. E’s right off MLK in Anacostia in 1991. Beautiful grounds, but outside the wall.... whooeee!